It's a gray, rainy, almost chilly spring day. It is spring so the birds are noisy, there are flowers, and green things are greening. But it is also gray, and all my weekend plans - which involved being outdoors - have been cancelled or altered because of the rain. So the gray rain has started my thoughts down a darker path.

I was thinking of a phrase, "Happy enough" that I heard on the Netflix series, 'Grace and Frankie.' Grace (Jane Fonda) uses it when her husband Robert (Martin Sheen) asks her how she felt about their marriage after he has just asked her for a divorce. Happy enough. I've never wanted happy enough - which is evident by the way my life has evolved. I've wanted happy or not, good not bad, all in or all out.

The next phrase, maybe even a counter-point to 'happy enough' is 'better than nothing.' While I've often rejected 'happy enough' I found myself, yesterday, flipping out the 'better than nothing' phrase. I had planned to send the entire day with a beloved friend, but work and life got in the way and our day turned into a few hours. I said, well a few hours with you is 'better than nothing.' Which actually is not true - nothing is nothing - it's a void that can turn into a sorrowful well.

A few hours with a loved friend can be wonderful, as long as the focus is on present - not on the missing hours or the unknown future.

Better than nothing, far, far better. Because we never know how much time we have to spend with those we love, so even a few hours can be precious.

Photography & prose by Terry Rowe.

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Sunday, April 16, 2017

The fifteenth week of 2017, the 365 photograph a day project. This week started with a quick explore of an abandoned building, the rest of the week was mostly bound with flowers of spring--so fleeting that it's hard to ignore their brightness.

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Day 98 04-09-2017

Wild violets, sweet spring gift to delight.

Day 99 04-10-2017

Windowsill Angel

Day 100 04-11-2017

Wildflower, Wood Poppy

Day 101 04-12-2017

Groundcover, Vinca

Day 102 04-13-2017

Peony. Early buds were lost to the late freeze, but the plant bounced back to deliver these blossoms.

Day 103 04-14-2017

New fern

Day 104 04-15-2017

Photography & prose by Terry Rowe.

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work can be or is available for sale, visit www.terryrowe.photography.
You can also leave me a comment if there is a particular piece of work
you are interested in.

Sunday, April 2, 2017

The thirteenth week of 2017, the 365 photograph a day project. Started the week off with a day trip to Hoopers Islands in Dorchester County in Maryland, among the sites visited was an abandoned cemetery being reclaimed by the Chesapeake Bay. The rest of the week was split between work & home. This week saw the close of the first quarter of 2017 and the first day of the second quarter.

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In
my photographs, I seek to capture a moment, to give the viewer a glimpse of
place and time that arrests the movement of life and allows each of us to savor
what is there to be seen. I have a camera in my hands every day, and my
favorite sound is the sweet click of the shutter as an image is caught.